“Miss Hayworth, who plays in this picture her first straight dramatic role, gives little evidence of a talent that should be commended or encouraged. She wears many gowns of shimmering luster and tosses her tawny hair in glamorous style, but her manner of playing a worldly woman is distinctly five-and-dime. […] Glenn Ford shows, at least, a certain stamina […]. Charles Vidor, who directed; Virginia Van Upp, who produced for Columbia, and a trio of writers deserve no credit at all. They made out of Gilda a slow, opaque, unexciting film.” Bosley Crowther: Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford Stars of ‘Gilda’ at Music Hall. In: The New York Times, 15. März 1946.
“Gilda is a wonderfully perverse noir classic that comes over as a cross between Casablanca […] and Hitchcock’s Notorious.” Philip French: Gilda – review. In: The Observer, 24. Juli 2011.
“Charles Vidor’s classic melo-noir Gilda from 1946 looks like the crazy evil twin of Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca. […] A real 1940s Hollywood treat.” Peter Bradshaw: Gilda – review. In: The Guardian, 21. Juli 2011.
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“Hayworth is photographed most beguilingly. The producers have created nothing subtle in the projection of her s. a. […] The direction is static, but that’s more the fault of the writers.” Vgl. Gilda. In: Variety, 1946.
“Gilda is the result of ambrosial Rita Hayworth’s desire to prove that she can act. […] she proves that she is such a looker that nothing else much matters.” Vgl. The New Pictures. (Memento vom 19. Februar 2011 im Internet Archive) In: Time, 1. April 1946.
“That sequence […] established Gilda as a noteworthy work of erotically charged film noir, despite the Code-friendly, good-girl ending.” Lucia Bozzola: Gilda (1946) (Memento vom 30. September 2018 im Internet Archive) bei AllMovie (englisch)
